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Nucleic acids encoding human telomerase reverse transcriptase and related homologs

a technology of reverse transcriptase and nucleic acids, which is applied in the field of new nucleic acids encoding the catalytic subunit of human telomerase and related polypeptides, can solve the problems of difficult purification of telomerase rnp, difficult characterization of protein components of telomerase, and extremely low levels of telomerase in cells, so as to increase the proliferative capacity of a vertebrate cell and increase the proliferative capacity of a ver

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-08-28
UNIV OF COLORADO THE REGENTS OF
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"The present invention provides an isolated, substantially pure, or recombinant protein preparation of a telomerase reverse transcriptase protein (TRT) and its variants. The protein has a specific amino acid sequence that is conserved across different organisms. The invention also provides an isolated nucleic acid that encodes the TRT protein and its variants. The isolated nucleic acid can be a recombinant nucleic acid or an oligonucleotide that is at least partially complementary to a naturally occurring nucleic acid. The invention also provides a composition comprising an hTRT protein and a human telomerase RNA (hTR). The invention also provides an expression vector comprising the promoter sequence of the hTRT gene. The invention further provides a polynucleotide that is at least ten nucleotides in length and is identical or exactly complementary to a contiguous sequence in a naturally occurring hTRT gene or hTRT mRNA. The polynucleotide can be an RNA or a DNA molecule."

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However, the characterization of the protein components of telomerase has been difficult.
In part, this is because it has proved difficult to purify the telomerase RNP, which is present in extremely low levels in cells in which it is expressed.

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Isolation of Telomerase Proteins and Clones

[0645]The following example details the isolation of telomerase proteins and clones from various organisms, including the euplotes p. 123, hTRT, TRT and S. pombe TRT telomerase cDNA clones.

A. Background

[0646]i) Introduction

[0647]This section provides an overview of the purification and cloning of TRT genes, which is described in greater detail in subsequent sections of this Example. While telomerase RNA subunits have been identified in ciliates, yeast and mammals, protein subunits of the enzyme have not been identified as such prior to the present invention. Purification of telomerase from the ciliated protozoan Euplotes aediculatus yielded two proteins, termed p123 and p43 (see infra; Lingner (1996) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93:10712). Euplotes aediculatus is a hypotrichous ciliate having a macronucleus containing about 8×107 telomeres and about 3×105 molecules of telomerase. After purification, the active telomerase complex had a mole...

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Correlation of hTRT Abundance and Cell Immortality

[0776]The relative abundance of hTRT mRNA was assessed in six telomerase-negative mortal cell strains and six telomerase-positive immortal cell lines (FIG. 5). The steady state level of hTRT mRNA was significantly increased in immortal cell lines that had previously been shown to have active telomerase. Lower levels of the hTRT mRNA were detected in some telomerase-negative cell strains.

[0777]RT-PCR for hTRT, hTR, TP1 (telomerase-associated protein related to Tetrahymena p80 [Harrington et al., 1997, Science 275:973; Nakayama et al., 1997, Cell 88:875]) and GAPDH (to normalize for equal amounts of RNA template) was carried out on RNA derived from the following cells: (1) human fetal lung fibroblasts GFL, (2) human fetal skin fibroblasts GFS, (3) adult prostate stromal fibroblasts 31 YO, (4) human fetal knee synovial fibroblasts HSF, (5) neonatal foreskin fibroblasts BJ, (6) human fetal lung fibroblasts LMR90, and immortalized cell li...

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Characterization of an hTRT Intronic Sequence

[0779]A putative intron was first identified by PCR amplification of human genomic DNA, as described in this example, and subsequently confirmed by sequencing the genomic clone λGø5 (see Example 4). PCR amplification was carried out using the forward primer TCP1.57 paired individually with the reverse primers TCP1.46, TCP1.48, TCP1.50, TCP1.52, TCP1.54, TCP1.56, and TCP1.58 (see Table 2). The products from genomic DNA of the TCP1.57 / TCP1.46, TCP1.48, TCP1.50, TCP1.52, TCP1.54, or TCP1.56 amplifications were approximately 100 basepairs larger than the products of the pGRN121 amplifications. The TCP1.57 / TCP1.58 amplification was the same on either genomic or pGRN121 DNA. This indicated the genomic DNA contained an insertion between the sites for TCP1.58 and TCP1.50. The PCR products of TCP1.57 / TCP1.50 and TCP1.57 / TCP1.52 were sequenced directly, without subcloning, using the primers TCP1.39, TCP1.57, and TCP1.49.

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Abstract

The invention provides compositions and methods related to human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTRT), the catalytic protein subunit of human telomerase. The polynucleotides and polypeptides of the invention are useful for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of human diseases, for changing the proliferative capacity of cells and organisms, and for identification and screening of compounds and treatments useful for treatment of diseases such as cancers.

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[0001]This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08 / 974,549 filed Nov. 19, 1997, U.S. Pat. No. 6,166,178, which is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08 / 915,503, filed Aug. 14, 1997, abandoned, and a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08 / 912,951, filed Aug. 14, 1997, U.S. Pat. No. 6,475,789 and a continuation-in-part of application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08 / 911,312, filed Aug. 14, 1997, abandoned, all three of which are continuations-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08 / 854,050, filed May 9, 1997, U.S. Pat. No. 6,261,836, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08 / 851,843, filed May 6, 1997, U.S. Pat. No. 6,093,809, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08 / 846,017, filed Apr. 25, 1997, abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08 / 844,419, filed Apr. 18, 1997, abandoned. ...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C07H21/04C12N1/20C12N15/00C12N9/00A01K67/027A61K31/70A61K31/7088A61K35/12A61K38/00A61K38/45A61K38/55A61K39/00A61K39/395A61K48/00A61P35/00A61P43/00C07K5/10C07K5/107C07K5/117C07K7/06C07K7/08C07K14/47C07K16/40C12N1/15C12N1/19C12N1/21C12N5/10C12N9/12C12N15/09C12N15/113C12N15/12C12N15/54C12N15/85C12P21/08C12Q1/02C12Q1/48C12Q1/68C12R1/19C12R1/84C12R1/91G01N33/15G01N33/48G01N33/50G01N33/53G01N33/566G01N33/573
CPCC12N9/1241C12N9/1276A01K2217/05A61K38/00A61K39/00A61K48/00C07K2319/00C12N15/113C12N15/1137C12N2310/15C12N2310/315C12Y207/07049A61P35/00A61P43/00
Inventor CECH, THOMAS R.LINGNER, JOACHIMNAKAMURA, TORUCHAPMAN, KAREN B.MORIN, GREGG B.HARLEY, CALVIN B.ANDREWS, WILLIAM H.
Owner UNIV OF COLORADO THE REGENTS OF
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